Coalitions asked for better opportunities to network with other groups between face-to-face events and conferences.

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Do you allow users to post material on your site? If you are the community manager of a Web site that does, ask for a raise. If you're the community manager's boss, give that person a raise … now.

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Dealing With Spammers In Online Blogging Communities

I recently encountered a situation where I located a really nice local website that accepted online bloggers from the region to enhance the site. I joined the site and posted a blog and clicked submit.

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An excerpt: As our emotional investment in the Internet has grown, the stakes for trolling — for provoking strangers online — have risen. Trolling has evolved from ironic solo skit to vicious group hunt.

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The history of online social networking would make for an interesting book.

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Shameless horn-tootin': OnEarth post about finding unexpected similarities between my parents' 1970s "back-to-the-land" environmentalism and today's less ideologically driven green movement. Kind of pleased with how it turned out.

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Since the social bookmarking technology like del.icio.us, Digg, reddit and stumbleupon and others are changing the way online communities are interacting with one another, major professonal communities, like doctors, lawyers, and scientist are using the technology of building com …

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Journalists need not fear the emergence of "user generated content" online as a threat to their jobs. Yes, millions of readers now are finding information online from publications that did not exist a decade ago. But none of that content emerged from empty air.

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Death Logs On: What Happens With Your Newsvine Column When You Die?

{This seed by Shaun V. reminded me of a write up I did on another site about three years ago. I decided to dust it off, update it and post it here.}

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Software that identifies the most informative people in an online community, based on their posting patterns, has been developed by researchers at Cornell University, New York, and Microsoft Research in Washington State, both in the US.

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I've been reading all I can about social media and communities. But honestly, I heard more new ideas from Sean than in all of the articles and blogs I've come across on the topic.

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From the article: A 2006 University of Maryland study on chat rooms found that female participants received 25 times as many sexually explicit and malicious messages as males.

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The proportion of site visits that are pornographic is falling and people are flocking to sites categorised "net communities and chat".

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The stalking, the trolling, the harassment, the meanness, the carelessness - it needs to stop... Personal and corporate blogs with piles of sarcastic and mean comments. Wikis and forums brimming with negativity and antagonism.

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Among those who study and write about online communities, few people are as well-regarded as Howard Rheingold.

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Here are 10 things that publishers and editors of small newspapers should be doing to keep up with the times and resist the industrywide trend of flat or declining print readership and loss of advertising dollars to new forms of media.

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"Writer Warren Ellis, author of comic books, graphic novels, and two forthcoming novels, is bringing his "Second Life Sketches" to the Reuters Second Life News Center as a weekly column beginning next month.

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According to a new study just released by the USC Annenberg Digital Future Project as much as 43 percent of Americans, who belong to online communities, feel just as strongly about their virtual worlds as their real-world counterparts. The Center for the Digital Future at the US …

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If you play an online game that you enjoy, there's one surefire way to spoil the experience: read the forums on the official site. There you will find a vast underworld of lost souls keening their misery onto your screen.

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Summary: In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action.

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Is there any way to weed out the fakes and the vandals? Though there are a lot of social networks, newsgroups, forums, and club-like Web sites on the Internet and Web, these entities are not true communities, although many purport to be.

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Over the past couple of months, a rash of hacking has taken over MySpace, the most popular Web site since, well, the Web. The scale of the hacks has the MySpace community up in arms and is prompting people to ask when MySpace is going to step up.

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Cyber-sex, war, and erection-inducing drugs are a recipe for a more socially inept, violent culture, according to a panel of top US sex experts.

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